Marc Hochstein

Marc Hochstein was the editor-in-chief of American Banker from July 2014 to September 2017. He joined the publication in 1998 as a reporter covering mortgages and steadily added responsibility over the years. At one time or another he oversaw American Banker's coverage of consumer finance, payments and community banking; the vibrant opinion blog BankThink; the wildly popular Morning Scan newsletter; and the reinvigoration of SourceMedia's mortgage publications. Marc was responsible for some of the earliest serious coverage of bitcoin anywhere and chaired SourceMedia's successful Blockchains + Digital Currencies conferences from 2014-2017.

Swift CEO Gottfried Leibbrandt talks about how the global messaging network is looking to stay relevant to its bank members; the potential and limitations of blockchain technology; and his views on the startups looking to disrupt banking.

New York regulator Benjamin Lawsky may use the cybersecurity rules he's proposed for virtual-currency companies as a model for traditional banks. That would subject the financial institutions his agency supervises to the most stringent data-security rules anywhere.